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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 3h \ on: Stacker Saloon

Killing time in a Fort Lauderdale hotel, I am reading about the Seminole Wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminole_Wars

Nobody taught me about this stuff in my US history classes.

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36 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 3h

The survivor gets to write history. Which is why we can't know for sure if any of this is really true.

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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 3h

I wasn't aware that escaped slaves from Georgia were seeking refuge in Florida, to begin with.

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36 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 3h

I have similar things wrt the current Russia-Ukraine conflict, where I've only heard indirect evidence for opposite claims in the narratives from both sides. That conflict is happening right now, and the best we have is bellingcat...

I have unfortunately become extremely skeptical of stuff that happened earlier than "right now" because of this.

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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 3h

I can see why. I'm reading a first person account of what I think of as the Armenian genocide, but Turkish people don't call it that.

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